The Cross in Corinth - The Social Significance of the Death of Jesus

Pickett explores how Paul appealed to the death of Jesus in the Corinthian correspondence in order to promote a community ethos and ethic consistent with the ideals and values it symbolized. In so doing, Paul was responding to interpersonal conflicts within the community and criticisms of his ministry-criticisms he saw as founded on Graeco-Roman cultural values of the cultivated elite. His consistent emphasis on the weakness of the cross served to critique social expressions of power in Corinth. More constructively, Paul attempted to secure conduct befitting the gospel by invoking the death of Jesus as a symbol of other-regarding behaviour.

Product details

• Authors: Raymond Pickett
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1997
• EAN: 9781850756637
• ISBN: 978-1-85075-663-7
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Journal for the Study of the N; Library of New Testament Studi; Journal for the Study of the N
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Altes Testament, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / New Testament, Religion - Biblical Studies, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament